eleveldb dependency doesn't build .so

[marianoguerra]

run:

rebar3 new release myrel1
cd myrel1

add dep:

{eleveldb, ".*", {git, "git://github.com/basho/eleveldb.git", {tag, "2.1.3"}}}

run:

rebar3 compile
find -name eleveldb.so

should return:

_build/default/lib/eleveldb/priv/eleveldb.so

but it's not there.

if I do:

cd _build/default/lib/eleveldb
make

then it's created

[tsloughter]

Right, eleveldb is not configured to build with rebar3. So you need to use overrides:

{overrides,
 [{override, eleveldb,
   [
     {artifacts, ["priv/eleveldb.so"]},
     {pre_hooks, [{compile, "c_src/build_deps.sh get-deps"},
                  {compile, "c_src/build_deps.sh"}]},

     {post_hooks, [{clean, "c_src/build_deps.sh clean"}]},

     {plugins, [pc]},

     {provider_hooks, [{post,
                         [{compile, {pc, compile}},
                          {clean, {pc, clean}}
                         ]
                       }]
     }
   ]
  }
 ]}.

[marianoguerra]

great, you can close it then. Maybe should be useful to have a section in the docs with gotchas and specific projects that require some workarounds?

is there anything I can propose to the eleveldb guys to make this easier for rebar3?

[tsloughter]

Yea, I probably need to start a page of projects like this.

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